On Sun, 2009-08-09 at 16:40:44 -0400, Ryan Kavanagh wrote: > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 05:23:43PM +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > I hope the packages uploaded won't have a «project» binary in the > > PATH? > > At the moment yes, Turnin-NG provides /usr/bin/project since that's what the > original turnin / project app provided. However, I can either: > 1) Rename the project script to something else upstream. > 2) Rename it in the Debian package and add a note to README.Debian. > > I'm not sure which I prefer. #1 has the advantage of being consistent across > all > distributions. #2 makes it so that if someone else wants to move away from > SPARC > and use Turnin-NG as a direct replacement for their old binaries, they can. > > What do you think?
I'd rename it upstream, less troubles for everyone. It's of course unfortunate that the original program was named like that, but I don't think continuing to take over such generic name is good in general. You could still document that in the Description, and README.Debian maybe also including a recipe for sites that might want to create for example a compat symlink under /usr/local for transitional purposes, or something to that effect. For the upstream part you could also do a slow transition, provide a «project» wrapper that prints a warning on stderr notifying the user about it being obsolete and pointing to the new name, the executing the actual program. The wrapper could be shipped for a period of time before complete removal, and installed only if enabled via some configure flag (or make target, as in “make install-obsolete”). Or just document the rename. thanks, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
